- Marvin Minsky’s cryopreservation data was successfully transferred to davidad, preserving his personal information for potential future revival.  
- A DIY CPU-decapping experiment used repeated 90 % nitric-acid boils to dissolve a motherboard and expose the bare die, with participants stressing fume-hood use and NOx safety.  
- Self-experiments challenged the “calories-in-calories-out” model: one participant ate ~4 000–5 000 kcal/day of high-fat, near-zero-carb food (2–3 lb bacon) and still lost ~1 lb/day for ten days, while another cited a medically supervised 382-day fast.  
- Practical cryonics obstacles were discussed: a bank notary refused to witness Alcor paperwork, prompting suggestions to locate cryonics-friendly notaries or Bay-Area attorneys experienced in mental-health law.  
- Hardware hacking notes included a 1 000 fps, 200×200 px camera on eBay and a member’s existing 500 V electrophoresis PSU intended for micro-capillary DNA sequencing.  
- LaserWeb, a new open-source laser-cutter control stack (Node.js, cross-platform, supports Marlin/Smoothieware/Grbl), was announced with integrated parametric G-code generators and raster/vector engraving for common image formats.  
- Data-storage design for a continuously generated diff-patch program was debated; the interim solution chosen is one file per patch in a hashed directory hierarchy, with SQLite migration if file counts explode.  
- Electrofuels.org was shared as a resource for microbial electrosynthesis and biofuel research, and C. elegans was proposed as a model organism for studying Borrelia persistence in neural tissue.